Blogs and other online resources

Selection Resources

Specific Disabilities

Blind

Revised Standards and Guidelines of Service for the Library of Congress Network of Libraries for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.Chicago, ASCLA, 2005. This publication presents standards and guidelines of service for day-to-day operation of LC/NLS network library services for people who are blind or physically handicapped. The standards are crafted to represent a level of excellence that this population deserves and to which all network libraries can aspire.

Guidelines for Library and Information Services for the American Deaf Community, edited by Martha L. Goddard. Chicago, ASCLA, 1996.

The Red Notebook is a starting point for libraries to look up for information regarding the deaf community and library services.

Deaf America Reads is a two-year program sponsored by the National Literary Society of the Deaf (NLSD), a reading promotion partner of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. This is a "One Book" Reading Promotion Project called "Deaf America Reads" and runs from March 13, 2008-March 13, 2010. The book selected for "one book" is Moments of Truth: Robert R. Davila, the Story of a Deaf Leader, by Harry G. Lang, Oscar P. Cohen and Joseph E. Fischgrund (Rochester, NY: RIT Press, 2007.) The program purpose is to broaden and deepen an appreciation of reading and to compel the national deaf community to share experience while reading the same book.

Learning Disabilities

Roads To Learning: Final Report, 1996-2001 Roads To Learning: The Public Libraries' Learning Disabilities Initiative was a grant project administered from 1996 to 2001 by the Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), and funded by a series of grants from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation. The primary goal of the project was to provide information about learning disabilities to the general public through public libraries, while increasing the capacity of public libraries to serve their communities in this area.